Recollection(s)

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Violinist and violist Christine Wu won the Berlin Prize for Young Artists, which allowed her to record this debut album for Outhere: in Recollection(s), she explores the relationship between time and memory. On violin, she performs Saariaho's Nocturne, where memories attempt to break the infinity of time; Bach's Chaconne evokes hope and transcendence; to compose eight musings . . . revisiting memories, Jeffrey Mumford draws inspiration from musical fragments taken from older works. On viola, Wu presents Joan Tower's Wild Purple and Weinberg's Viola Sonata No. 2, Op. 123, where recurring rhythmic cells address the fragmented nature of memory; and Stravinsky's Élégie, which highlights the logical progressions of memories.